Coming Wednesday 3/18: The Book of Job, in which powerful people mess with the lives of their underlings for fun and well-meaning friends give terrible advice for coping with a crisis.
this is who runs this account
(different hair, tho)
if anything reading lots of books has resulted in a -2 to our CHA score by annihilating our capacity for small talk at parties
also i hate to tell u but reading doesn't actually make you a better person? like i think engaging with art can increase your faculty of empathy but reading the brothers karamazov doesn't actually make you, like, superior? ive read it and didn't get a +2 to my WIS stat
turning up to the function wearing a button that says ASK ME ABOUT THE GREAT BELZONI
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if anything reading lots of books has resulted in a -2 to our CHA score by annihilating our capacity for small talk at parties
Thanks Anders! We've got Job, the Tao Te Ching, and Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics on deck over the next couple of months. Hope you enjoy!
No, but we'll be adding it to the TBR! Thank you for the recommendation and the review!
Relevant episode is here! #philosophy #classicsky #podcasts #books podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
Post by Twitter user Charlie (@civic_crab): "charlie @civic_crab greek court: socrates you are on trial for Never Shutting The Fuck Up, how do you plead socrates: not guilty, and here is a book's worth of speech to back it up. plato you gettin all this? plato, scribbling furiously: yeah man this is gold"
Last year's episodes on Plato were pretty exhausting but at least they reinforced the fact that political theorists make terrible political consultants.
Thank you so much! We were just messaging with someone about the Great Belzoni (ep. 4) and how delightful it was to discover him for the show.
Really enjoying catching up with this podcast, examining classic world literature in chronological order! I started with Episode 1 (Gilgamesh, so beloved of us Trekkies), then jumped forward to Homer - but it’s all so good that I’m listening to them all in order now. A fun way of learning a lot! 🖖🏼📚
We apologise to people with screen readers: this is a flowchart aimed at answering the question "Which Greek Philosopher Are You?" First question is: "Do you prefer the indoors or outdoors?" If you choose "indoors", the next question is "Do you feel disdain for the common man?" If Yes, you're Plato. If No, you're Aristotle. If you reply "Outdoors", the follow-up is "Do you enjoy masturbating in public?" If yes, you're Diogenes. If no, the next question is, "Do you like crowds?" If yes, you're Socrates. If no, you are asked "Porch or garden?" If your reply is "Porch", you're Zeno; if it's "Garden", you're Epicurus.
Couldn't trace this back to a definitive creator, but: Epicurus all the way, bro
Right now, for your Saturday binge-listening pleasure, we have a four-episode series on the great epics of Ancient India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Go check them out now on your favourite podcast delivery service! #podcasts #classicsky
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"Aristotle Tutoring Alexander" (1895), a black-and-white print by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. A soft and youthful-looking Alexander sits in a chair of state on a platform, leaning on his hand as he listens intently to his tutor Aristotle. There is a Grecian plumed helmet sitting on the ground near the platform to let you know this is one fighty boi. Aristotle sits on a low stool to the left of Alexander. He has a scroll in one hand and he gestures with the other as he speaks. He looks startlingly like the actor Jeremy Renner.
Ep. 50: Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
Ep. 51: Aristotle and Alexander the Great (possibly just Alexander the Great; we'll see how this shapes up)
Painting of Lao Tau, Confucius, and Buddha by Ming-era Chinese artist Ding Yungpeng (1547-1628). Three men sit in apparent discussion or meditation in an outdoor setting. Buddha wears red robes, Confucius wears blue robes and his distinctive hat, Lao Tau wears yellow or perhaps light brown robes.
Ep. 48: The Tao Te Ching
Ep. 49: The commodification of the Tao (Tao of Pooh, Tao of Business, etc.)
Image shows "Job Rebuked by His Friends", an engraving by the English artist and poet William Blake (1757-1827). It illustrates Job 12:4, "I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn." Job, bearded and wearing only a loose covering over his lower half, kneels at the left-hand side of the image, staring up to the sky in distress. He is covered with scales and boils. His wife kneels next to him, glaring at him. To the right of the image are three men, dressed in clean robes, pointing accusingly at Job in his despair.
Coming up over the next few months on BoAT:
Ep. 46: The Book of Job
Ep. 47: Two reactions to Job: William Blake's engravings; parallels with Franz Kafka's The Trial
amaaaaaaaaaazing #art #classicsky
Love it! ❤️🐺
The Eumenides III
Ink on paper - 2024
this is not news. we have been a fully sentient posting museum since at least 2016
Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.
this reminds me of the best joke I ever made up:
Which Greek philosopher invented studs on football boots?
Soccercleats
Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.
unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live
Agreed. Sustaining your curiosity and excitement about the world is a way to fill your life with love and joy, no matter how solitary a person you may be.
I breathe the air that comes out of your nose, the north wind which comes forth from your mother. (BDF)
someone had to be
We apologise to people with screen readers: this is a flowchart aimed at answering the question "Which Greek Philosopher Are You?" First question is: "Do you prefer the indoors or outdoors?" If you choose "indoors", the next question is "Do you feel disdain for the common man?" If Yes, you're Plato. If No, you're Aristotle. If you reply "Outdoors", the follow-up is "Do you enjoy masturbating in public?" If yes, you're Diogenes. If no, the next question is, "Do you like crowds?" If yes, you're Socrates. If no, you are asked "Porch or garden?" If your reply is "Porch", you're Zeno; if it's "Garden", you're Epicurus.
Couldn't trace this back to a definitive creator, but: Epicurus all the way, bro
Booke, booke,
Reade a booke,
Reade anothir booke,
Reade a large amounte of bookes -
Bookes are freakinge awesome
